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Feb 14, 2018There’s still something fun and interesting to be found in what the band do and Little Dark Age is proof that they’re nowhere near done with inter dimensional meddling.
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Feb 15, 2018Little Dark Age is a welcome return of MGMT's pop instincts, but it rarely shies away from the duo's love of adventurous psychedelia, either. It's perhaps the best indie-rock album of the year so far.
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Feb 8, 2018Now we have Little Dark Age. The true follow up to Congratulations, the record that is doomed to enjoy the benefit of the regret of the music writers who panned Congratulations and also to enjoy the inevitable backlash against the backlash. The record is more than good enough to earn these accolades. The highs are very high.
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Feb 15, 2018To put it mildly, Little Dark Age isn’t a success story, nor is it a comeback for anyone other than the most nerdish and devoted of us, and it doesn’t matter anyway. This isn’t the best this band has sounded in years, it’s the best they’ve ever sounded.
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Mar 26, 2018MGMT always excel when they don't try too hard, and on Little Dark Age, they admirably leverage irony with lighthearted merriment.
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MojoFeb 27, 2018Album four reverts to their initial template of hyper-melodic, lyrically skewed, synth-pop. ... Back on form. [Apr 2018, p.87]
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Feb 20, 2018With Little Dark Age, the group have perfected the balancing act between the two, and have delivered a project that should please fans on both sides.
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Feb 12, 2018The tunes are back, the harmonies are still weirdly endearing, and the album hangs together really well as a whole. As a single piece of work it is a fine achievement, a rival to Oracular Spectacular in its personal and political observations.
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Feb 12, 2018As hinted at by the release of its majestic and disquieting title track last autumn, Little Dark Age finds MGMT finally rediscovering their mojo. Irresistible pop hooks abound.
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Feb 12, 2018There’s still so much going on that Little Dark Age is a lot to take in, but it’s worth going back for seconds.
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Feb 9, 2018It slowly and steadily comes into focus over the course of its running time.
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Feb 8, 2018Unlike with its two predecessors, you’re almost never struck by the sensation of a band deliberately trying to suppress the urge to write tunes.
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Feb 8, 2018MGMT spikes the formula with just enough outsider charm to milk an album’s worth of inspiration from the tired aesthetic. It’s not going to inspire legions of imitators à la “Oracular Spectacular,” but Little Dark Age should be both hooky and eccentric enough to please MGMT fans of all stripes.
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Feb 8, 2018MGMT’s return to pop is a much more welcome surprise.
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Q MagazineFeb 8, 2018A record that embodies a whole world of vulnerability, confusion and unsteadiness without losing shape. [Mar 2018, p.102]
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Feb 9, 2018Little Dark Age does return to some of the “form” of “Oracular Spectacular” with its greater pop accessibility, but it also embraces a less obvious and more intriguing path on several songs.
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UncutFeb 16, 2018Here, on their fourth LP, the duo--teaming up again with Dave Fridmann--appear to have entered some weird, parallel 1983. [Apr 2018, p.30]
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Feb 9, 2018If Little Dark Age is a new start, it’s a promising one.
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Feb 9, 2018MGMT are back to their roots on Little Dark Age, with concise tunes built from cushy keyboard beats and cute, kiting melodies.
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Feb 8, 2018For better or worse, Little Dark Age is an album for its time: moody, backward-looking, a little depressed. ... This is a soundtrack for the long hangover.
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Feb 8, 2018Its first half features some of the group's sweetest pop confections since those massive singles, while its second delves into the muggy Barrett-isms of their more recent work.
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Feb 21, 2018Little Dark Age is pleasant enough, but it’s hard to look past a glaring dearth of ideas.
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Feb 8, 2018They sound like a band treading water, desperately looking for their place in the modern pop landscape and never deciding whether to go pop or stay totally weird. This indecision leaves them stuck in the middle of the road, which isn't a very interesting place to be.
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Feb 9, 2018There are some sweet moments on Little Dark Age and some stale ones. More often than not, Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser lapse back into a sardonic mode that sounded a whole lot better in 2007 than it does in 2018.
Awards & Rankings
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Positive: 288 out of 311
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Mixed: 12 out of 311
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Negative: 11 out of 311
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Feb 9, 2018Their best work yet. The high points on this album are orgasmic and it's blowing me away with every listen.
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Feb 9, 2018